When did rural Oregon find out that there was in fact several layers of central government available to help them? Didn't they feel a bit foolish at that point?

It's great that they were all working so hard in grinding poverty and just letting the weak die or whatever, very inspirational, but being vaguely aware of reality might have served them better overall.

The New Deal agriculture subsidies must have really confused them if they didn't even know about the state government.

https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/narratives/the-world-ru...

Hopefully they can ditch those unhelpful socioeconomic adaptations they picked up now they've rejoined society.